Today, I’m excited to share a couple of new features in Amazon QuickSight. First, with this release, we expanded connectivity options by adding Amazon Athena support in the EU (Ireland) Region. Additionally, you can now use Count Distinct on your dimensions and metrics in the visualizations and aggregate date fields by week for SPICE data sets.

Athena in Ireland

Athena is one of the most popular data sources used by QuickSight customers. It allows you to deploy a serverless BI and analytics architecture for your operational and business data. With this release, the Athena connector is now available in the EU (Ireland) Region. You can connect QuickSight to your Athena databases and tables in the region and start visualizing your data in a matter of seconds.

Count Distinct

You can now perform aggregations using Count Distinct in the visualizations, one of the top requests from users. To use Count Distinct, simply select Count Distinct as the aggregation on the visual axis or in the field well. Count Distinct is supported for both direct queries and SPICE data sets. You can apply it to strings and measures. It is available for all supported visualization types.

Date aggregation by week

Time series line charts are one of the most common ways for customers to report on business trends. In addition to Year, Month, Day and Hour, you can now aggregate date fields by WEEK and visualize your data at a weekly granularity for SPICE data sets.

Learn more

To learn more about these capabilities and start using them in your dashboards, see the QuickSight User Guide.